Photos of mystery building baffle Melbourne history buffs

5:22 PM,
Feb. 22, 2014

Melbourne history buffs are working to identify the building in this photo, believed to be from the 1920s. Lee Altenberg, of Hawaii, sent the pictures to the city in December 2013 asking for help to identify the building, one of the projects his grandfather helped build. Photo courtesy Lee Altenberg.

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A man whose grandfather helped build some of Melbourne's landmarks has asked local historians to help identify a mystery building that appears in three aging family photos.

So far, the history buffs are stumped.

Lee Altenberg, a scientist and researcher in Hawaii, emailed the pictures to the Melbourne Historic Preservation Board in early December. His mother had recently pulled out a pack of old pictures from her father, Alfred Boyd, an Alabama man who graduated from Auburn Polytechnic Institute - now Auburn University - in the early 1920s and came to Florida towork as an engineer for a ...